About IBTimes

Leadership

Editorial

Peter S. Goodman is Global Editor-In-Chief of the International Business Times, supervising the publication's editors and reporters in its main New York newsroom as well as its international sites from the United Kingdom to Australia. An award-winning journalist, Goodman was previously Shanghai bureau chief for the Washington Post, national economic correspondent for the New York Times and executive business and global news editor for the Huffington Post. He is leading a worldwide buildout of IBT, expanding the presence and impact of its growing body of original reporting, providing a growing audience with illuminating, authoritative coverage of the global economy.

Before coming to the International Business Times, Nancy Cooper was a longtime Senior Editor and Special Projects Editor at Newsweek magazine and newsweek.com. She was Deputy Executive Producer of TheTakeaway, at New York Public Radio, and was a Homepage Editor at msnbc.com. Nancy lives in New York City with her husband and two children.

Mark F. Bonner is the Managing Editor of the International Business Times. Previously, he was the Managing Editor at Graphis, an international book publisher, and Sotheby’s magazine in New York City. He has worked as a Staff Writer for various newspapers in the southeast United States, including the New Orleans Times-Picayune, the Baton Rouge Advocate and Mississippi’s Clarion-Ledger. His personal obsessions are the New Orleans Saints, indie music and hiking.

John Simons is the Business Editor at International Business Times. Prior to IBT, he was technology and media editor at The Associated Press. In previous incarnations, John has been an editorial director at Black Enterprise, a staff writer at Fortune magazine, an economic policy reporter at the Wall Street Journal, and a senior editor at U.S. News & World Report. He was also a Markle Fellow at the New America Foundation, where he focused on technology policy and economic opportunity in the digital age. He has discussed his work on The PBS News Hour, CNN, The Fox Network, MSNBC, National Public Radio, and CNBC, where he is a regular contributor. John lives in Montclair, New Jersey, where he enjoys hiking with his wife and daughter, keeping up with the English Premier League, and trying his hand at various home improvement projects.

Michael Learmonth is the Technology, Media & Culture Editor at the International Business Times where he oversees coverage of technology, telecoms, gadgets, Silicon Valley, science and social media. Learmonth came to IBT from Advertising Age, where he served as Deputy Managing Editor and Internet Week New York, where he was Chief Content Officer. Learmonth started his career at Metro, an alternative weekly in Silicon Valley where he covered the first of several boom-bust cycles in tech and has since worked at the Industry Standard, Reuters and Variety in San Francisco, London and New York. He lives on the Lower East Side of Manhattan and can commute door-to-door by bike in 12.5 minutes.

Before joining the IBTimes, he was a producer at the radio division of Bloomberg News, a writer and editor at CNN, and a news agency reporter in his native Italy, where he covered politics and business in Milan and Rome.

He serves on the advisory board of the Deadline Club, the New York City chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists. A political science graduate of the University of Milan, he is fluent in French and Spanish.

Cristina Silva is the Senior Editor of Breaking News. She has written about U.S. politics and foreign affairs for NPR, Salon, The Miami Herald, The Boston Globe, The Associated Press, The Tampa Bay Times, the New York Daily News and Stars and Stripes. She has reported from Honduras, Germany, Italy, Bahrain, Mexico and from across the U.S. She graduated from New York University and is fluent in Spanish.

Mike Obel, Markets Editor, began working at the International Business Times in 2011. Before coming to the IBTimes, he reported, wrote and edited at The Associated Press, United Press International and the Oil & Gas Journal.

Bobby Ilich joined International Business Times in Feb. 2011. Born in Los Angeles, Ilich graduated from the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California in 2001 with a B.A. in Broadcast Journalism.

Paul McDougall is Deputy Technology Editor for The International Business Times. He has previously written for Scientific American, InformationWeek, SHAPE magazine and numerous other publications. Paul is a native of Toronto, Canada and currently resides in Manhattan. He holds a B.A. from the University of British Columbia-Vancouver, where he studied Political Science and Economics, and an M.A. in Journalism from New York University.

Hanna is Infographics Editor at IBTimes. She works with datasets, builds maps, designs infographics and codes interactives. Before joining IBT in April 2014, Hanna worked as the Infographics Designer at Vocativ and was the Interim Art Director at Lilith Magazine. She graduated from Parsons The New School for Design and Eugene Lang College with degrees in Communication Design and Media Studies. Her other loves include Brooklyn, podcasts, iced americanos and bourbon.

Emily Scheer is the Public Relations Director of IBT Media. She handles press outreach across the company's brands, including Newsweek and International Business Times.

Emily has spent her career in news and media, having previously held positions at CBS News, CNN, TheStreet, Inc. and The Rosen Group. She was named a “min Rising Star” in 2014, which recognizes media leaders under 30 who have impacted the industry.

Emily was on the Dean’s List at Cornell University, where she graduated with a BA in film and government.